Summer Solstice Activity Programs for Kindergarten Classes

1. p> Activity Preparation

Video on mixing and kneading, video on simple pasta making, play dough

Activity Process

1. Introduce the traditional custom of eating pasta on the summer solstice when new wheat is harvested.

2. Introduce the conversation

- Do children know what food is pasta?

- Do you like to eat pasta? What kind of pasta do you like?

-Some children like to eat noodles, some like to eat bread, in fact, the outer layer of the bun . The outer layer of buns and dumpling skins are all pasta, and their shapes are not quite the same. But in fact they are made of flour, why flour can have so many shapes ah, let's look at a look in the hands of the big brother flour is how to step by step to change it.

3. Teacher to play and flour, kneading video, and explain

--- ask a child to repeat the flour into the dough need those steps? (You have to add water and mix it in one direction, and finally knead it into a ball with your hands)

--Awesome, now we have the dough, which is our play dough, now please ask children to use their little hands to knead the dough into the shape of your favorite pasta.

4. The children kneaded the playdough on their own, and the teacher guided the children who needed help and encouraged them to make more difficult works such as bun skins, dumpling skins, etc.

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5. Ask the children to show their work, and the teacher will reward the children who can make excellent work.

6. End of activity

Activity Objectives

1. Understand the weather changes on the summer solstice

2. Feel the sound of the rain's 'change' and appreciate the poems about the sound of the rain

3. Be able to complete the umbrella's coloring on their own, develop creativity and aesthetic ability

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Activity Preparation

Umbrella sketch, rain sound audio

Activity Process

1. Introduce the knowledge of the weather changes during the summer solstice.

After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly, air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often formed in the late afternoon and evening. This heat thunderstorms suddenly come and go, rainfall range is small, people say "summer rain across the field". Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, skillfully used this weather as a metaphor and wrote the famous poem "The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, and there is no clear sky but there is a clear sky". The rainy weather along the Jianghuai River is characterized by frequent rains and humid air.

2. --Children, do you like rainy days?

-- Some children like it, some don't. Why don't you like it? Why don't you like it?

- In fact, rainy days are not so unpleasant, as long as you look carefully, you can find a lot of things that people like. For example, teachers especially like to listen to the sound of rain, and many ancient poets also like rain. Let's come together to listen and look at it.

3. Teacher plays the audio of rain sound to experience the rain in ancient poems.

(1) Teacher plays the audio of drizzle and asks children to describe what drizzle is like.

Zhinan wrote, "The rain of apricot blossoms is wet on the clothes, and the wind of willow is not cold on the face", the rain falls on the clothes, but the clothes are not wet, and the wind blows on the face, but the face is not cold.

(2) Teachers play the audio of heavy rain and ask children to describe what it is like.

Li Shangyin wrote, "Autumn shade does not come out in the evening, and the frost flies late, leaving the withered lotus to listen to the sound of rain." In late fall, the sky is dark and frosty, and there are few lotus leaves left in the pond, only a few for people to listen to the sound of raindrops dripping down.

(3) Teacher plays audio of a rainstorm and asks children to describe what it is like.

Su Shi wrote, "Black clouds turn over the ink and do not cover the mountains, white rain jumps beads into the boat." The clouds were like ink, but they didn't cover all the mountains, and the rain hit the lake, and the splash jumped into the boat.

4. - Children, it is raining now, what do you do to protect yourself from the rain?

- Now the teacher gives you a small umbrella, please draw a beautiful pattern for it.

5. Teachers distribute printed umbrella sketches, children use their imagination to color, the teacher will need to help children to guide.

6. Ask the children to show their work and say why they drew it this way, and the teacher will reward the children who can create excellent works.

7. End of the activity

Activity Objectives

1. Understand the feature that shadows are the shortest at the time of the summer solstice.

2. To understand the law of the change of the length and size of the shadow.

3. Perform a hand shadow show to exercise the hand muscles.

Activity Preparation

Flashlight, hand shadow performance video

Activity Process

1. Introduce the knowledge of summer solstice

It is said that the summer solstice is the earliest festival to be determined, because the ancestors used the earth gui to measure the sun's shadow and found that the length of the shadows under the sun at the same time is the same as the length of the sun's shadow on that day. The length of the shadow from the sun at the same time was the shortest. Why is this? It is because the earth is a sphere, the surface is by the curvature, the change of the sun's point of direct sunlight caused by the change of the sun's altitude angle. Summer solstice this day, the sun's point of direct sunlight to reach the Tropic of Cancer, is the closest to us, so this day the sun's altitude angle is the largest, the same time the sun shines under the shadow is also the shortest.

2. Do experiments to prove the relationship between the angle of light and the length and size of the shadow

-- Children have observed our shadow? What did you find?

--The shadow is our good companion, always following us, but it is also very naughty, often change their length and size, children know how it does?

(1) the pencil vertical on the table, the flashlight first from the side of the irradiation, please observe the length of the shadow of the children, and gradually will be too high flashlight to observe the changes in the length of the shadow, so that children find the smaller the angle of illumination of the shadow of the longer, the larger the angle of illumination of the shadow of the shorter.

(2) the flashlight is fixed on the table, to the wall, the hand in the wall and the flashlight between the back and forth to observe the size of the shadow changes, so that the children found that the closer the object from the source of the shadow is bigger, the farther away from the source of the shadow is closer to the actual size of the object.

3. Watch the hand shadow show

(1) - The shadow is really naughty! But he is our good companion, there is such a group of people and the shadow of the relationship is very good, but also to let the shadow to perform the program!

(2) Teachers play the video of the shadow show

4. As long as a good understanding of the shadow, you can also become very good friends oh.

(2) show a few hand shadow action, please children to practice

(1) Teachers invite a few children to come on stage to perform a story with the hand shadow, pay attention to the size of the animal

5. End of the activity

Activity Objectives

1. Understand the custom of eating pasta on the summer solstice.

2. To know what wheat products are available.

3. Use imagination, what is in the summer solstice noodles, exercise children's hands and creativity.

Activity Preparation

A bowl of noodle sketches, and print, each one, colored pens, scissors, double-sided tape

Activity Process

1. Introducing the custom of eating noodles at the summer solstice:

At the time of the summer solstice, the harvest of the new wheat, although the food customs vary. The difference, but eating noodles is the **** the same. Historical records, China's Han Dynasty on the summer solstice custom, eating noodles also have the meaning of tasting new. Like Beijing cold Tao noodles, Sichuan dan dan noodles, Wuxi people eat wheat congee in the morning, eat wontons at noon, Jiangnan region and wheat dumplings, summer solstice cake. The so-called summer solstice cake is rolled out as a thin cake, baked, and sandwiched with green vegetables, bean pods, tofu, and bacon, etc., and then eaten after ancestor worship. In fact, there is no designated filling ingredients in the summer solstice cake, as long as it is appetizing summer heat, can be added to the cake as a filling.

2. Understand what wheat products

(1) - children, have you seen wheat? What does it look like? (Teachers show pictures)

(2) - We usually eat pasta is like wheat so hard yellow?

(3) - In fact, ah wheat is first made into a white and fine flour to be widely used by us. Then children know what things are made of flour? We have just mentioned many of them when we introduced the pasta eaten on the summer solstice, can any children recall them? Are there any others? (Noodles, pasta, pastry, bread, cake)

3. Summer solstice to eat summer solstice noodles

(1) noodles are also made of wheat, is one of the main foods we eat on the summer solstice, there is a saying called "winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles," there is also a saying that "ate the solstice noodles, a day shorter," the summer solstice noodles, a day shorter, a day shorter, a day shorter, a day shorter, a day shorter, a day shorter, a day shorter, a day shorter. Today, our noodles have been prepared, but just eat noodles some monotonous, children to use their brains, think of noodles on what can be added to the dish?

(2) Please draw the children you can think of, cut out the dish, and then paste it in the bowl of noodles.

(3) Teacher distributes the printed noodle sketches.

(4) The children are free to play, and the teacher guides the children who need help.

(5) Ask the children who have finished their drawings to show their work and say what they drew and why they drew these dishes.

(6) Teachers give rewards to the children who have excellent works.

4. End of the activity

Activity Objectives

1. Understand the characteristics of the summer solstice, and know why "summer solstice is not hot".

2. Understand how to fight against the heat and learn about the different kinds of fans.

3. Learn how to make a small fan with colored paper and popsicle sticks, exercise hand muscles and coordination, and learn to utilize waste.

Activity Preparation

1. square colored paper, popsicle sticks, double-sided tape

2. fan making tutorial video

Activity Procedure

1. Introduction of the summer solstice

The summer solstice is the day that the sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer. After this day, the sun's point of direct sunlight began to gradually move to the south, the northern hemisphere day began to gradually become shorter, for the Tropic of Cancer and its northern region, the height of the sun at noon began to decrease day by day, but why is the hottest time in the month of July and August? It turns out that the temperature we feel is not the degree of the sun, but the earth's reflected temperature, before the summer solstice, the surface of the accumulated heat has not yet reached the highest, so the summer solstice this day is not actually the hottest time of the year. On the contrary, after the summer solstice, the surface temperature gradually accumulated, coupled with a long period of sunshine, the temperature is gradually rising, so there is a "summer solstice, but not hot" said.

1. Ask questions

- Ask how children spend their summers.

--What are the best ways to combat the heat?

-What do they need to use? (e.g. fans, electric fans, air conditioners, etc.)

--Do you know what kinds of fans there are? (Teachers show pictures: bushel fan, feather fan, folding fan, fan, etc.)

2. Homemade small fan

--So today we are going to do a small fan of our own.

(1) Teachers show small fan tutorial video.

(2) Did the children understand? Ask a few children to retell the process.

(3) Teacher distributed colored paper, popsicle sticks.

(4) Children began to make the fan, for those who have difficulty in the teacher to guide.

(5) After the shape of the fan is completed, children can decorate the fan according to their own imagination.

4. works of display

Please children to show their own works, and select the best works to give awards.

5. End of the activity